... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 27 Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State Peter Gill Frank Cass, London, 1993 Academia's a swine. Writing an essay on International Relations (the ideological version of Foreign Office 'realism') for my Politics MA, I managed to smuggle in a few references to actual politics -- European Nuclear Nuclear Disarmament, the SNP, and 'independence within Europe', that kind of thing. Flushed with success, I told a friend all about it. 'How fucking tedious, ' he said. The bastard was right, too. ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last | Contents | Next Issue 41 Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society See note (1 ) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O'Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn't clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title - and a title to which I cannot possibly actually do justice - and given my complete lack of knowledge about the audience to whom I was delivering the talk, I decided to chuck ...

... and whether the Tribunal's rules and procedures are compatible with human rights legislation. Introduction The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) was established by s65 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), (3 ) and came into being when the Act came into force in October 2000. It replaces the Interception of Communications Tribunal, the Security Service Tribunal and Intelligence Services Tribunal (4 ) ; and the complaints function of the Commissioner appointed under the Police Act 1997. The Tribunal's jurisdiction is set out in RIPA s65; it is the body which hears all complaints concerning the intelligence agencies and complaints against public authorities, including the police forces, in respect of the powers covered ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last | Contents | Next Issue 50 Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite Tim Pendry Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. What happened between the mid-1990s (when the great debate on post- ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last | Contents | Next Issue 40 What Price National Security?Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum's European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1 ) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet - Circumventing Censorship? The first session, on the nature of national security, was introduced by John Owen, Director of the Freedom Forum's European Centre. He spoke of continuing threats to erode ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 22) November 1991 Last | Contents | Next Issue 22 Fascism, the Security Service and the Curious Careers of Maxwell Knight and James McGuirk Hughes John Hope The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5's attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger to state and national security against which it acted once that potential became actual. This, it is stated ...

... Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi W hat follows is a section of a much longer document written by a senior Canadian federal intelligence official named Gareth LLewellyn about the actions against him of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). This story is notable for his account of being 'gang-stalked' by CSIS. The whole document can be read at <www.radicalpress. com/?cat=1193>. (Yes, I did notice that this site is anti-semitic but of the two versions of the complete document I found on- line this version is the more clearly laid out.) January 2011 Dear Reader: Would it affect ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last | Contents | Next Issue 52 The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee Anthony Glees, Philip J. Davies, and John N. L. Morrison London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2006, 20, h/b The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is a recent addition to the roster of Whitehall bodies; the motives of those who created it, as the authors show, are obscure and its role to some extent remains undefined. Formally it is a creature of the prime minister, to whom it reports and who ( ...

... those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent's strategic importance. '1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these 'facilities [are known] as "lily pads", or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and [enable] access to locations in Algeria, Botswana, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. '2 Here we find similarities between the US and UK. During the first Scramble for Africa, Britain largely ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 4) April 1984 Last | Contents | Next Issue 4 Companies House Searches On The 'Security' Industry Security Research Ltd Address: 1 London House, High St, Ripley, Surrey GU23 6AA Andrew Bowden MP was host at a reception given by Security Research at the House of Commons. (Times 14th July 1983). Among those present were members of the diplomatic corps, Dept.of Industry, Ministry of Defence, Met. Police and the defence industry. What Security Research is up to isn't clear. Formed out of Software Resale (Data Processing) in April 1982, it apparently designs ...